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Former vice presidential candidate Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) told NBC News it was "not a coincidence" that President Trump issued his executive order curtailing immigration from certain countries on the same day the White House released its Holocaust Remembrance Day statement, omitting specific reference to Jewish victims.

Kaine called Trump's order a religious test and said it puts a tougher burden on Muslims versus other immigrant groups.

Trump demonstrated complete confusion on the specifics of the executive order, Kainesaid, adding that he failed to delineate between green card holders and other non-citizens entering the United States from abroad.

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He accused Trump's chief strategist, Stephen Bannon, of influencing both the order and the White House's statement the same day memorializing victims of the Holocaust.

Kaine saidBannon'sBreitbart News "traffic[s] in white supremacy and anti-Semitism."

"The irony is not lost on me that it was issued the same day... I think all of these things are happening together," he said.

Anchor Chuck Todd asked Kaine to clarify what his accusation meant:

"You put a religious test on Muslims and you try to scrub references to Jews: this was horribly mishandled," Kaine said.

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In her opening statement on Saturday, Judge Jeanine Pirro slammed critics of President Trump's hard-line stance on illegal immigration, including liberal mayors of sanctuary cities.

"You can march and you can hate; you can shame and you can demonize, but... law and order is back in the West," Pirro said, referring to Trump's executive order withholding federal grant money to cities who will not enforce federal immigration law.

Pirro said such mayors, like Ed Lee (D-San Francisco) and Bill de Blasio (D-New York), will only hurt their own residents when severe budget cuts must be made.

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De Blasio said last week Trump's order "undermines public safety", and the city's comptroller Scott Stringer (D) said New York may lose as much as $7 billion because of it.

Citing her time as a district attorney and judge, Pirro dismissed some mayors' claims that illegal immigrants can greatly contribute to the community by identifying crimes without fear of apprehension.

"It doesn't work," Pirro said, explaining that as district attorney she used a "U-Visa" to allow illegal immigrants to report crimes.

She said that such an avenue makes a blanket "sanctuary city" policy unnecessary.

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The focus of my work and writing is the environment. But I write today to express my personal outrage, sorrow, and embarrassment at the ban imposed by Donald Trump on entrance to the United States by people from seven countries in the Middle East - based solely on their country of origin.

This action is inhumane, immoral, and indefensible. Not only is the ban based on the unsupportable factual premise that it will prevent acts of terrorism in the United States, but it violates constitutional protections and the explicit statutory prohibition against exclusion based on national origin enacted by Congress in 1965. Contrary to its asserted purpose, Trump's action is more likely to fan the flames that feed terrorism in this country and around the civilized world.

The ban is blatantly un-American - inimical to our long-held values of equality and inclusion embodied in the Declaration of Independence and symbolized by the Statue of Liberty. All Americans should be outraged, and all of us need to oppose it.

I join in condemning this divisive, destructive, and despicable action taken in the name of our country by a dangerous President who has already demonstrated - and by this latest action once again confirmed - that he has little regard for facts, no apparent interest in the complexities of addressing the real needs of the people his office exists to serve, and a distorted understanding of the constitutional principles on which this country has been built - a foundation that for centuries has made this country unique in the world.

Each of us has a stake in collective action against the immigration ban, because the danger posed by Trump isn't limited to one religion, region, gender, or ethnic classification, one social, cultural or economic group, or one special interest or issue. The attack launched this week against immigrants from the seven banned countries betrays a sickening lack of judgment that threatens all of us whatever our demographic or concern -- from national security to environmental protection to civil rights to our constitutional system of laws. Complacency in the hope that, if given a chance, Donald Trump intends or will inevitably be compelled to moderate his behavior is a prescription for escalating, irreparable, and widespread harm -- to our families, our communities, and our future.

The responsibility to oppose the dangerous demagoguery of this President isn't dictated by political party or ideology. His reckless policies and blatant disregard for fact aren't a matter of right or left but of right or wrong - and of our personal and national interest. His illegal ban on access to this country is antithetical to basic standards of human decency that Americans fought and died to defend in opposing dictatorship and genocide in World War II.

The good news is that Trump's action is already being challenged in the streets and in court, and a stay of the ban was issued on Saturday by the federal court in Brooklyn. Other such actions - whether their focus is civil rights, environmental progress, our social fabric, or our humanity -- must be challenged as well. No matter the issue - this one or the next -- we will succeed only if each of us, together, does whatever we can.

Stand up, speak out, and be heard. Get involved. Oppose Trump's immigration ban.

Take action. Today.

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Cordileone described his feelings about Trumps executive actions on immigration as nervous, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Trump recently signed two executive actions on immigration, which include direction to build the promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, hire 10,000 additional U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, and deny federal grant funds to sanctuary cities i.e. those that, to varying degrees, protect illegal aliens from enforcement of federal immigration law.

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The Archbishop stated that the church would protect those who could be deported for being present in the U.S. illegally and would make sure these foreign nationals know their rights.

Catholic Charities is among several organizations that receive federal funds to resettle refugees in the U.S. Breitbart previously reported on the $1 billion in federal funds spent on refugee resettlement in 2015 alone.

San Francisco is one of many sanctuary cities around the country that stand to lose their federal funding if they refuse to comply with federal immigration laws.

Cardileone acknowledged that Trumps actions were expected, but said, We dont know whats going to happen. The Chronicle reported the Archbishops expression that Trump appears to be focusing on criminals, so hopefully the people who are here, who are working and contributing to society, can continue to be able to do so.

The archbishop added his encouragement over Trumps support for the March for Life as he spoke at a prayer service for a 61-year-old man who had been beaten to death.

In October 2016 Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) office blastedPresident Barack Obamas administration for allowing over 180,000 foreign nationals that have committed crimes within the United States to remain in America. Sessions office added that the Obama administration had allowed approximately 1 million illegal aliens with orders for removal to remain within the country.

San Francisco was the site of the death of Kate Steinle in July 2015. Steinle was killed at the hands of five-times deported, seven-time convicted felon illegal alien Juan Franciso Lopez-Sanchez. Lopez-Sanchez made a jailhouse confession to the crime and said that he had originally chosen to travel to San Francisco because of the citys policies hindering the deportation of illegal aliens.

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Its about to get real.

Last week President Trump lowered the boom on Americas pourous borders by signing an Executive Order authorizing construction of a 2,000-mile wall from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean. The President also put hundreds of sanctuary cities on notice that his administration will enforce Americas immigration laws. Cities that refuse to comply risk losing Federal funding for both essential and non-essential services. No place has more skin in this game than Los Angeles, the city that gave birth to sanctuary policies back 1979.

When then-LAPD chief Darryl Gates issued Special Order 40 the police directive that prohibits officers from initiating a stop based on suspicion of an immigration violations L.A. quickly became the place to go for illegal immigrants. Why not? The welcome mat was out.

As well intentioned as Special Order 40 might have been, the law of unintended consequences kicked in. Crime didnt drop, it soared.

But some things did fall.

Wages for working men and women plunged while graduation rates in LAUSD schools sank to historic lows. What went up is poverty. Way up. According the Census Bureaus Supplemental Poverty Measure, California is the poverty capital of America, both by percentage of population and in real numbers, with 20.6-percent of Californias 38-plus million residents living below the poverty line. Thats 5.5-percent higher than the national average, approximately 19 million struggling to survive.

How can this be?

Progressive, liberal, forward-thinking California has every natural advantage: the worlds greatest climate, abundant natural resources, World Class colleges and universities, Silicon Valley and Hollywood as well as magnificent ports and harbors perfectly positioned on the Pacific Rim to ride the crest of the rising tide of trade with Asia. Yet, somehow, California has more people living in poverty than Mississippi or Alabama or any of those backward, knuckle-dragging, redneck states its so fashionable for West Coasters to disparage.

The why is obvious.

California has something else those other less-enlightened states dont have, the nations largest population of illegal immigrants.

Obvious to everyone but our leaders.

Sanctuary policies encouraged the poorest of the hemispheres poor to come to L.A. We effectively imported poverty on a mass scale, overwhelming law enforcement, our schools and the social safety net while forcing our poor to compete with even poorer people for the first rung on the ladder of success. We cheapened labor far beyond the strawberry fields of Oxnard.

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Rather than an honest examination of this complex issue our alleged leaders pandered to an emerging demographic group and demagogued anyone with a dissenting opinion as a racist and xenophobe. And, tragically, the news media drove the getaway car.

The statutory term illegal alien has long been banished followed a few years later by illegal immigrant, as if these words are hate speech. To be pro-border enforcement is to be labeled anti-immigrant, as if there is no distinction. Im sure drunk drivers would appreciate the same courtesy from the media.

With the stroke of his pen President Trump put the illegal back into illegal immigration. Thats a good first step.

What will follow is not going to be pretty. We have become addicted to cheap labor and withdrawal from any addiction is not pain free.

The pushers of open borders will throw the kitchen sink at Trump on this one. The battle lines have been drawn.

The fight over control of our borders represents a continuation of the eternal American battle between States Rights and Federalism. Its Jefferson versus Hamilton, John C. Calhoun versus Andrew Jackson, Jefferson Davis versus Abraham Lincoln, Orval Faubus versus Dwight Eisenhower and now Jerry Brown and Eric Garcetti versus Donald Trump.

Theres a grand irony in all this.

Had we been allowed to have an honest debate on immigration, with all sides represented, not just the pro-amnesty arguments, had we taken even a few commonsense steps to correct the injustice of rewarding folks for cutting the line, Donald J. Trump would never have been elected president.

Or likely anything else.

Doug McIntyres column appears Sundays. Hear him weekday mornings, 5-10 on AM 790 KABC. He can be reached at: Doug@DougMcIntyre.com.

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